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I freely admit that I ground my way through the protracted heteronormative anxieties of Strange Lady in Town (1955) for the continued presence of twenty-three-year-old Lois Smith as Spurs O'Brien, one of those mixed-up motherless tomboys who just needs her gender trouble sorted out by her father's remarriage to a strong feminine role model if you believe the screenplay and looks such a late nineteenth century baby dyke in her ranch jacket and jingling boots that you feel she's just waiting for motorcycle clubs to be invented. Her crush on a cavalry lieutenant is narratively doomed and might in any case have been envy. Put her in a ball gown, she's right back in trousers and string ties the next scene, heedless and gallant as any young grandee. I mean when Dana Andrews drags his heels on the sub-screwball romance through which the picture manifests its stresses over the place of professional women, Spurs does her best to run off with Greer Garson herself, all the way back to Boston. "I don't know, Doc, except—well, except I can't figure out any sort of life without you." What did the film think it was doing with her? I don't even know what it thought it was doing with the slap-kiss of its textual couple, but I took an awful screencap just because of the lingering way Spurs sees herself out of a room with Garson's Dr. Julia Garth in it. Once she gets over the rebound, she'll make some Eastern belle ring. "But what a woman!"

Current Music: Amindi, "Green House"

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Most people into Heated Rivalry probably know that there are additional stories on Rachel Reid's website, like this Halloween one.

There are also snippets in the Memento Mori series by C S Poe mostly posted on insta, like like this one here.

K J Charles has some addition epilogues and POVs on her website

I know other authors also do this, but don't remember which offhand. I'm also looking around for a good links list to the Poe ones since they are on insta and fussy to grab. (I meant this to be more a coherent resource post, oops, but maybe we can crowdsource one)

Anyone know of other authors who also post side stories for free? Anyone surprised to hear this happens?

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When I went to see Project Hail Mary at OMSI, I knew I'd be passing some cool stuff I'd love to shoot, but wasn't going to bring a camera back to a movie theater... though I think I could have gotten away with it. I tried to take some pics, but most are not worth posting.

This one is okay:

See that sort of sheen/reflection off of the paint? It's not very visible in person, but in most of my shots it obscures the art. I can't control for it well via a phone.

On the way to the show, I stopped at Living Haus Brewing because I hadn't tried it yet. I had a half pour of a cream ale. It was okay. I'll need to try something else by them. But, I did stop and write for a bit in a brewery in a converted warehouse with an analog DJ deck:

Racking up the Portlandy points. I was working on a project that hoooopefully I'll have done soon.

Fast forward to today...

Anyway, for today the plan was to go write at Queer Plants. But on the way I saw something happening at Mike Bennett's studio so I hopped off, checked out what turned out to be a community tag sale and then walked to Queer Plants... but I wandered a bit and then wound up at the corner of Alameda and Alameda. Took 3 hours to get there. I'd been tempted to bring my real camera in case I saw anything to help get my photo posting going again, but I did not... and then I wound up walking for hours.

Glimpse of what Mike Bennett is currently working on:

Some of the exchange stations at his studio:

( More photos, all cell phone grabs. )

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I see we are at the "US Navy base in Virginia asking for donations of toiletries" stage of the victory lap.

Sailors have been arriving in Norfolk, Va., home to the world's biggest naval base, since at least the middle of March. Several groups that provide aid to military personnel say that the sailors arrived with very little. A call went out to community groups, asking for basic supplies like hygiene products.
"The base was asking for donations of toiletries and different things for the sailors coming back, because they were coming back with nothing," said Derrick Johnson, commander of American Legion Post 327 in Norfolk.
The post hosted a spaghetti dinner for some of the sailors, said Keith Shanesy, one of the post's vice commanders.

Previously, previously, previously.

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